Mal Minhas of the LiMo Foundation announced and presented a white paper at OSiM World called “Mobile Open Source Economic Analysis” (PDF link). Mal argues that by forking off a version of a free software component to adjust it to your needs, run intensive QA, and ship it in a device (a process which can […]

Jono Bacon asked on the Art of Community blog for successful governance stories, and while I’m happy to comment on the blog, now that I’ve taken the time to write some down, I thought I might as well share them
Governance comes in many shapes & sizes of course. My favourite governance stories are […]

A collection of recent articles of interest:

 From the archives: the best distros of 2000 | TuxRadar: A trip down Linux distribution memory lane - back to the day when WindowMaker was considered “an attractive alternative” to Enlightenment, the old default GNOME window manager.
Polymorph: Hacking Business Models: A few months ago, Monty Widenius and Zack […]

This is an article accompanying the presentation given by Dave Neary to MAPOS 08 in London on December 9th 2008.
Moving the Mobile industry from purchasing to co-development in free software communities
Recently, Matt Aslett wrote an article about the way that attitudes to free software evolve over time within a company, using a graphic he got […]

The GNOME Mobile Summit being held as part of the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in Austin next month represents a forum where industry and community have merged into one, and have been collaborating effectively on adabting the GNOME platform to the needs of mobile computing.